At the same time, the data sent by the positioning beacon was transmitted to a barren planet several star zones away through the quantum link.
A huge disc-shaped battleship the size of a mountain was parked quietly in a crater. It had a diameter of more than thirty kilometers and was entirely iron-gray in color. The material used was an ordinary alloy, which was considered a beginner space battleship material in the explored universe. This disc-shaped battleship had anti-gravity levitation and high-density nuclear thrusters. Its hyperdrive technology was very rudimentary. If there were galactic residents here, they would know that the technology level of this battleship was between that of a galactic civilization and a surface civilization. It was equivalent to the technology level of a planetary civilization that had just started colonizing outer space.
The only thing that stood out was its quantum communication technology.
A large number of cryogenic hibernation pods were distributed in the bottom cabin. Countless crew members were sleeping in them. Only a few people were awake, maintaining the life support function of the spaceship in the bridge cockpit.
Dozens of creatures in simple combat suits were busy in front of the control panels. These creatures were quite short, had six arms, and brown skin.
At this time, one of the control panels suddenly issued a notification.
Beep beep! Beacon 0278 has been activated. The positioning data of the beacon has been received.
All the operators in the room hurriedly turned their heads and rushed to the control panel, whispering to each other. Then, a tall creature of another species pushed through the crowd and squeezed to the front of the control panel.
"Get out of the way, let me see … Hahaha, did we discover a new planet?"
This tall creature was obviously the leader. He was nearly three meters tall, and the short operators around him only reached his thighs. This person was wearing metal armor, which made clanking sounds as he walked. His appearance was lawless, even more ferocious than an Orc. It did not conform to the aesthetic standards of most humanoid creatures.
"Leader Kikiga, this beacon has been lost for a long time. I didn't expect it to be activated now. Our beacon has been discovered by an unknown intelligent creature! They have repaired the beacon! "An operator was quite frightened.
"Isn't that even better? We can even capture them as slaves and offer them to the Great Emperor. The Great Emperor loves new species the most! "Kikiga laughed loudly.
"Leader, it's not that simple. The target this time is different from the species we have invaded before. The other party can repair the beacon, which means that they have a technological level close to ours. There are not many people in the entire universe who can catch up to us. The target this time is not so easy to deal with! They took the initiative to repair the beacon, and it's very likely that they want to find us. "
"What? They dare to look for us?!"
Hearing that, Kikiga's expression turned ferocious, and he said angrily, "It seems that they are a bunch of ignorant people who have never heard of the name of the Great Cosmos Corps! You want to track us down? You're courting death! "
If Han Xiao were here, he would not be unfamiliar with the name 'Great Cosmos Corps'. This was a native organization of the Flickering World, a wandering civilization that had lost their mother planet due to a disaster. They had been wandering around the center of the Garu Star Cluster, looking for all kinds of resources to sustain their lives.
In the early days of their vagrancy, they explored the planets around them through beacons and gradually discovered some underdeveloped civilizations. Due to the lack of trust and communication, they destroyed all the civilizations they encountered and plundered a lot of resources and technology. Gradually, they got used to this way of development and turned from a vagrant civilization into a space pirate organization, making a living by plundering planets.
As most of the native civilizations in the Garu Star Cluster were relatively weak and did not interact with each other, this organization was tyrannical in the central area of the Star Cluster, and no one stopped them. They had accumulated a lot of resources and manpower through plundering. There were no civilizations nearby that could resist them. This group of people thought that they were the overlords of this universe, so they changed their name and called themselves the 'Great Cosmos Corps'.
Just from this name alone, one could tell that this group of people was quite arrogant.
Later on, the Great Cosmos Corps started to explore even further. With their technology, they naturally could not figure out the overall distribution of the Star Cluster. They were completely clueless about the unknown regions and could only explore.
Although they had occupied many planets as their territory, they had not fully explored the Star System and lacked all kinds of basic facilities. It was like they had occupied a few planets and thought that they ruled an area. Compared to the civilizations in the explored universe, this group of people was completely clueless.
This was an unexplored Star Field without order, which was why such a special organization had appeared. They had an area of influence that exceeded a Star System civilization, but their strength was not even comparable to the most ordinary Star System civilization. Due to the lack of opponents, they felt very good about themselves.
Their 'strength' was only limited to the natives' standards.
In Han Xiao's words, this group of people was commonly known as frogs at the bottom of a well.
In his previous life, when the dynasty explored the Garu Star Cluster, they only left a short amount of information about this organization. Han Xiao had laughed for a long time after reading it.
Because in the dynasty's records, the deeds of this' Great Cosmos Corps' could be compared to the Wan Shun Heavenly Kingdom in real life.
However, when he discovered the beacon, the title of 'hidden mission' was quite suspicious, and Han Xiao thought that this was a mysterious civilization in the local Star System. The Great Cosmos Corps was located in the middle of the Garu Star Cluster, and in the dynasty's records, there was no mention of the Great Cosmos Corps appearing in the southern border Star System of the Garu Star Cluster.
Furthermore, the dynasty only had a short record of the Great Cosmos Corps because this local organization was simply too weak to the dynasty. They had committed the common mistake of the natives, which was arrogance. This small episode was not worth recording to the dynasty. In his previous life, the dynasty's exploration was something that happened during the version update, and the players did not experience it personally. After officially entering the Flickering World, the Great Cosmos Corps had long been dead. Han Xiao could only understand it through the dynasty's records and did not have a deep impression of it.
Therefore, he did not think in that direction at first and did not know that the target of the mission was this organization. However, even if he knew, it would not make much of a difference to him.
"I … I think it's better to report this to the emperor. With just the few of us, I'm afraid it's not enough …"
"What did you say?!" Kikiga was easily angered. He slammed his palm on the table.
"Leader, don't be angry. The emperor put you in charge of this area. If we act on our own, the emperor will be angry!"
Hearing that the emperor might be angry, Kikiga shivered and said hesitantly, "Then … let's report this to the emperor."
Everyone hastily contacted the emperor and focused. Very soon, the projection of a person appeared on the screen.
The person in the image was of a humanoid race. His entire body was wrapped in dark purple mechanical armor, and only his head was exposed. He had messy black hair and pale skin. The lower half of his face was covered by a metal mask, so his appearance could not be seen. His eyes were filled with indifference. He was wearing a bright red cape that covered half of his shoulders. Thick tentacles extended from his back. These tentacles were muscular and similarly covered in a certain amount of armor. They were like many mechanical tails that clustered around this person.
He was sitting on a steel throne on a battleship. Behind him was a metal wall with the insignia of the Great Cosmos Corps engraved on it. The skulls of different beasts were hung on it like trophies or collectibles. This person was the leader of the Great Cosmos Corps, Atimo.
Seeing this person, Kikiga hurriedly stood up.
"You better have a reason to disturb me."
Atimo raised his eyelids. His tone was neither salty nor light, but it was filled with coldness.
Kikiga shuddered. He had become one of the leaders because of his outstanding combat ability. Although he had a bad temper, he was afraid of Atimo from the bottom of his heart. Under the constant reminders of the operators, he stuttered and reported what had just happened and carefully waited for a reply.
"So, you were discovered by a group of unknown organizations with advanced technology?"
"Yes, what should we do?"
"Invade their planet, plunder their technology, snatch their resources, destroy them, and capture them." Atimo's tone did not change. "Do you still need me to teach you all these?"
"Un — understood." Kikiga hurriedly nodded.
After hanging up, Kikiga heaved a sigh of relief and glared at the operator beside him.
"Did you hear that? The Emperor wants us to destroy the enemy. Wake up all the fellows that are sleeping. We have a war to fight! "
…
Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and Han Xiao's main fleet left Planet Pangurus. He only left behind a certain number of mining troops.
The next planet that Han Xiao planned to personally explore was a resource rich planet in the first Star Zone of the border Star System.
In his memory, the famous planets were scattered all over the place. Compared to the size of the entire Star Cluster, the first Star Zone was still a little smaller. Other than Planet Pangurus, he had some impression of more than ten planets in this Star Zone, and they were all places that he had personally visited in the past. A portion of them were resource rich planets. Back then, he had mainly formed a team to snatch the resources from the guilds. The rest were functional planets, such as stargate stations and supply stations.
The exploration team of the Black Star Corps and Senico's exploration team split up. Based on their current efficiency, it would take them around seventeen to eighteen days to explore all the planets in the first Star Zone. As such, it would take them around half a year to explore the entire Star System. The main reason was that they had to spend a lot of time on the road.
After all, not every planet had natives, and ordinary planets could be explored very quickly.
As for the Special Task Force, because they did not stop during the journey, they would only need four months to cross more than ten Star Systems and establish long-distance stargates. During this period of time, Han Xiao felt that he should be able to explore all the planets in the Star System that he had an impression of.
On the other side, a few battleships left the fleet and carried the mechanical troops sent by Han Xiao. They followed the reverse positioning of the beacon and headed toward where Kikiga and the others were.
Inside the spaceship, rows of mechanical soldiers quietly lined up. Under Sparda's remote control, they were on standby and did not move at all.
In the cabin, however, there was a group of fellows that did not fit in with the lifeless mechanical army. They were the mechanical lives under Han Xiao that had activated their tinder.
"Everyone, this is the first time Master has sent us out to fight. We definitely cannot disappoint Master."
In the spacious room, dozens of mechanical lives were either sitting or standing, looking at Psionic Prime, who was speaking with a serious expression.
As soon as he said that, a silver mechanical life that was leaning on the sofa spoke in an impatient tone.
"Humph, we're all the first generation of Master's children. You were just born the earliest, and you think you're our leader?"
Han Xiao had personally created thousands of first-generation mechanical lives, and Psionic Prime was the leader. However, some mechanical lives were not convinced.
The mechanical lives that had awakened free thinking also had emotional modules. Because their bodies were different, they would basically have a body that was convenient for them to move around through nano-transformations.
"According to the bloodline relationship of life forms, Silver Flash, I'm your big brother," Psionic Prime said.
This mechanical life form that spoke was called Silver Flash. He was usually jealous of Psionic Prime for being able to accompany Han Xiao all the time. Psionic Prime was only a Hovering Fissioner, and Master clearly liked his thick, long, and fierce Planet Destroyer the most!
"Let's fight! Let's fight! Whoever wins gets to be the big brother! " A reddish-black mechanical life form that was clearly shorter than the others jumped up and down. Its main body was a dark energy floating cannon called Crimson Flame.
"Stop messing around." Psionic Prime waved his hands.
"I'm messing around!" Silver Flash saw the opportunity and suddenly pounced. His mechanical butt crushed the sofa as he charged toward Psionic Prime.
Psionic Prime immediately split from his human form into many hovering guards, allowing Silver Flash to pass through.
Pa! Silver Flash placed his arms on the ground, spun his body, and kicked toward Psionic Prime's hovering guard doppelganger. His main body was a Planet Destroyer, so he did not dare to fire casually on the ship.
Two hovering guards suddenly combined and turned into a hand, grabbing Silver Flash's leg. Sparks flew as the metal clashed. Psionic Prime then returned to his human form and threw Silver Flash over his shoulder.
Bang! The heavy mechanical body smashed a crater into the metal floor with a bang.
"Do you still want to play?" Psionic Prime grabbed Silver Flash's leg and did not let go. His palm released a nanoparticle restraining field, preventing Silver Flash from nano-transforming and retracting his leg.
Silver Flash fell to the ground. One of his legs was grabbed, and the other leg kept kicking toward Psionic Prime. Psionic Prime dodged all of his attacks like children fighting.
The two mechanical lives fought, and the room was instantly in a mess. The surrounding mechanical lives quickly moved away and cleared the space.
Usually, in Han Xiao's secondary space military camp, mechanical lives would spar with each other every day. All the mechanical lives were used to it.
"Did you not apply the oil? Harder!! "The Scarlet Fire Regiment shouted from the side, wishing for the world to be in chaos. One of the Oathkeepers could not stand it anymore and kicked it away like a ball.
"Don't sink the spaceship! If you want to fight, go to the combat room! "a ranger mechanical life yelled.
At this time, all the movements of the mechanical lives froze, and Sparda's cold voice sounded.
"Master finally gave you guys a mission, and you guys are messing around? All of you better reflect on yourselves! "
Mechanical lives had free will, but in the underlying logic, Han Xiao's artificial intelligence had a higher priority, second only to Han Xiao's authority.
Normally, Han Xiao would not allow the artificial intelligence to easily take over the control and let the mechanical lives move freely. That way, the growth effect would be better. However, Sparda did not want these mechanical lives to continue messing around. In an instant, he took away the control of these mechanical lives and controlled them to return to the cabin.
However, although these mechanical lives could not control their bodies, their minds were still active, and they cursed at each other through the network.
Silver Flash: "If it was an open space, you would have turned into scrap metal already!"
Psionic Prime: "Hehe."
Ranger: "It's all your fault. We can't even move!"
Oathkeeper: "Silver Flash … After completing the mission, I'll dismantle you and send you back to Master to be reconstructed!"
Silver Flash: "You think I'm afraid of you? Let me blast you with my cannon if you dare! Let's see if you have the chance to be reconstructed! "
These mechanical lives could not move their bodies, but their mouths could speak …
In short, they were punished to stand.
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